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THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO<br/>
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CHAPTER 7
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Jesus reproves the Pharisees for their false traditions and ceremonies—He casts a devil out of the daughter of a Greek woman—He opens the ears and loosens the tongue of one with an impediment.
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Then</span> came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem.
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And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault.
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For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they <sup>a</sup><a href="mark/7/3a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Purification.">wash</a> <i>their</i> hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.
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And <i>when they come</i> from the market, except they wash, they eat not.  And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, <i>as</i> the washing of cups, and pots, brasen vessels, and of tables.
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Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with <sup>a</sup><a href="mark/7/5a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Washing.">unwashen</a> hands?
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He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people <sup>a</sup><a href="mark/7/6a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Apostasy of Israel; TG Hypocrisy.">honoureth</a> me with <i>their</i> lips, but their heart is far from me.
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Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching <i>for</i> doctrines the commandments of men.
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For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the <sup>a</sup><a href="mark/7/8a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Traditions of Men.">tradition</a> of men, <i>as</i> the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.
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And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="mark/7/10a" mark="a" type="H" title="JST Mark 7: 10-12 (Appendix).">For</a> Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso <sup>b</sup><a href="mark/7/10b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Curse; TG Honoring Father and Mother.">curseth</a> father or mother, let him die the death:
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But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, <i>It is</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="mark/7/11a" mark="a" type="A" title="Matt. 15: 5.">Corban</a>, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; <i>he shall be free.</i>
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And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;
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Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.
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&#182; And when he had called all the people <i>unto him,</i> he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one <i>of you,</i> and understand:
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There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can <sup>a</sup><a href="mark/7/15a" mark="a" type="H" title="JST Mark 7: 15  . . .  defile him, which is food; but the things which come out of him; those are they that defile the man, that proceedeth forth out of the heart.">defile</a> him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that <sup>b</sup><a href="mark/7/15b" mark="b" type="A" title="Titus 1: 15; 2 Ne. 19: 17; D&C 93: 35.">defile</a> the man.
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If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.
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And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.
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And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also?  Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, <i>it</i> cannot defile him;
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Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?
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And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that <sup>a</sup><a href="mark/7/20a" mark="a" type="A" title="James 3: 6; D&C 88: 121.">defileth</a> the man.
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For from within, out of the <sup>a</sup><a href="mark/7/21a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Jn. 2: 16.">heart</a> of men, proceed evil thoughts, <sup>b</sup><a href="mark/7/21b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Adultery.">adulteries</a>, fornications, murders,
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<sup>a</sup><a href="mark/7/22a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Stealing.">Thefts</a>, <sup>b</sup><a href="mark/7/22b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Covetousness.">covetousness</a>, <sup>c</sup><a href="mark/7/22c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Wickedness.">wickedness</a>, <sup>d</sup><a href="mark/7/22d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Deceit; TG Fraud.">deceit</a>, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
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All these <sup>a</sup><a href="mark/7/23a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Motivations.">evil</a> things come from within, and <sup>b</sup><a href="mark/7/23b" mark="b" type="A" title="Mosiah 4: 30.">defile</a> the man.
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&#182; And from thence he arose, and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and entered into an house, <sup>a</sup><a href="mark/7/24a" mark="a" type="H" title="JST Mark 7: 22-23  . . .  and would that no man should come unto him. But he could not deny them; for he had compassion upon all men.">and</a> would have no man know <i>it:</i> but he could not be hid.
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For a <i>certain </i>woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet:
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The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.
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But Jesus said unto her, Let the <sup>a</sup><a href="mark/7/27a" mark="a" type="H" title="JST Mark 7: 26  . . .  children of the kingdom first  . . .">children</a> first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast <i>it </i>unto the <sup>b</sup><a href="mark/7/27b" mark="b" type="A" title="D&C 41: 6.">dogs</a>.
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And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children’s crumbs.
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And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter.
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And when she was come to her house, she found the <sup>a</sup><a href="mark/7/30a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Ne. 11: 31.">devil</a> gone out, and her daughter laid upon the bed.
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&#182; And again, departing from the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, he came unto the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis.
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And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech; and they beseech him to put his <sup>a</sup><a href="mark/7/32a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Administrations to the Sick; TG Hands, Laying on of.">hand</a> upon him.
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And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue;
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And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.
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And straightway his ears were <sup>a</sup><a href="mark/7/35a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Miracles.">opened</a>, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain.
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And he charged them that they should tell no man: but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they <sup>a</sup><a href="mark/7/36a" mark="a" type="A" title="Matt. 9: 31.">published</a> <i>it;</i>
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And were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things well: he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.
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